It's been a week of serial murders by rats,people had reported that a rat killed a falcon once, most hunting serfs had problems with getting food.
The cause of all this had no problems with this, he never cared for the pains of another.
Right now he had 8454 exp.
And the rats were still all level 10, why.
[{Atrociously-muscled}{Experienced} rat(+) lvl 10 1000/1000 exp.]
You get it? No? The rat's going to evolve into a better card.
[Evolve rat into;
Tier 2; Braik
The braik is a rat-like creature that seems to tunnel through the earth, often a pest in the ilrkar kingdom at farms.
Tier 1; Healthy rat
A rat healthy and filled with better growth rates, would have better choices if evolved again.
Tier 1; Wolf-cub
For some reason a rat can turn into this, a wolf is a wolf, this is a wolf cub, it will turn into a wolf. The rat was aggresive, so this is what it could become.
Tier 2; Giant rat
A rat that uses mana to increase virility, often in sewers, and very annoying to get rid of.
Tier 2; Yuarqua
A rat-dog like creature who's body is temperarily strengthened through magic from time to time, extremely agressive, nomadic and often eats anything it can get it's hands on, often atempted to get exterminated by the desert kingdom of quardia.
Tier 2; Irkaria (Rat 5 only)
A rat like creature which uses magic often, and is quite talented at it for a tier 2. Often makes hive like structures and lives with many of it's kind. Often tried to be exterminated by the kingdom of yruard.
Tier 2; Erikraiia (Rat 5 only)
A rat like creature which has magic within it's life blood, magic and it are more in tune than some tier 3's. It is rare, and violent. A higher varient of the Irkaria.
Tier 2; Iriakiarti (Rat 5 only)
Your body is mana intuned, mana is with you, that is for the iriakiarti, an extremely dangerous, but not that violent, but chaotic, sub-species of the Irkaira species.
Tier 2; Yrusautkiti (Rat 5 only)
A very rare and dangerous sub-species of the irkaira, the magical energies have completely taken control over the mind, the mind is chaotic, and the body filled with rampant magical energies. It's a miracle that it isn't dead. It can create more of itself without a partner, and kills anything that moves.
Tier 2; Yairquanau (Rat 1 only)
A more powerful varient of the yuarqua species, rare and solitary, often kills sentients and is said to savor their souls as breakfast, it doesn't, but it has higher stats and higher growth potential.
Tier 2; Starquanai (Rat 1 only)
An even more powerfull varient of the yuarqua species, extremely rare, and extremely open to murder. When ever one is seen and recognized, they are killed on sight.
Tier 2; Hergyaunqaui (Rat 1 only)
a even more powerful varient of the yuarqua species, unbelieveably rare, and often known to kill all in it's path, a physically intuned ball of destruction.
Tier 2; Irijikaij (Rat 2 only)
A rat like species who's body is far more regenative than most things, it's body is filled with vitality, and can live without some of it's organs without many long-term problems.
Tier 2; Irijikariaji (Rat 2 only)
A more powerful sub-species of the Irijikaij, able to regenerate some organs and skin with enough time. Violent and signifies the thoughts of 'Even if I die, I'll kill you too!'
Tier 2; Irijigiarji (Rat 2 only)
An even more powerful sub-species of the irijikaji, able to live without a heart for a few days, and 50% of it's blood is enough to be pretty healthy. Pretty violent too.
Tier 2; Irijiqiarijkji (Rat 2 only)
An even even more powerful sub-species of the irijikaij, could live on without most organs, can regenerate limbs with enough time and less that 25% of it's blood can be within it's body without being in any physical problems. Is often mistaken as an immortal rat in the country of qurdui.
Tier 2; Ruiniaka (Rat 3 only)
A rat like creature speeding across the plains, often not seen since it hides quietly in the tall grass. Violent and hungry, works in small 3 Ruiniaka cells in the wild, normally.
Tier 2; Ruiraika (Rat 3 only)
A sub-species of the Ruiniaka, extremely fast and a greatly prided hunt at the coming of age ceremony of the northen plains's nomads.
Tier 2; Ruiwsiakaika (Rat 3 only)
A sub-species of the ruiniaka of higher power, unbelieveable rare and fast for a tier 2, very dangerous and often culled in the coming of age area of tribes of the northen plain if spotted.
Tier 2; Riubiara (Rat 3 only)
A sub-species of the ruiniaka, a speedy devil, K.O.S. (Kill on sight). Extremely violent due to the stress encoured by high speeds. Has been noted that many children coming of age and other such things have died by it.
Tier 2; Yrairis (Rat 4 only)
A rat like creature of quite a pretty large size, enduring of the elements, and found in the snowy lands of the hyirarsis kingdom.
Tier 2; Iarairisis (Rat 4 only)
A sub-species of the yraisis with a larger size, pretty violent, often seen as good prey, but a rare hunt.
Tier 2; Eriarjisis (Rat 4 only)
A sub-species of the yraisis with a larger sized body, violent, very good prey, and a prideful hunt for the young of the snowy hills.
Tier 2; Yrisairis (Rat 4 only)
A sub-species of a far higher class that the yraisis, far larger, takes a lot of preperation to slay when the children's hunts come to being.
Tier 2; Urisiaar (Rat 6 only)
A rat like creature with high intelligence, often in gigantic groups to make up for their physical weakness, greed after the flesh of the sentient. Appear in many places.
Tier 2; Uririsiaar (Rat 6 only)
An advanced sub-species of the Urisiaar, with greater intellect and also leading the Urisiaar. Killing them will put a bit of weight off your back when going against the Urisiaar colony.
Tier 2; Uqirisiaar (Rat 6 only)
An advanced sub-species of the Urisiaar, very rare and intelligent for a rat-like creature. When it appears the local adventurers guild gives the newbies a large scale quest to kill it and it's colony.]
Those are a lot of choices, a lot of choices, but he choose 'healthy rat' for all of them. Even if there was a problem, rats are not worth much.
Suddenly all of the stats restarted at what was there before everything, though the add-ons were still there.
Herhail heard of a knocking on his 'sort-of-a-door' door, he put his deck away and walked there.
3 guys with shanks were there, the middle one said "We and our boys have noticed that you came of age recently, Shouldn't you help out the community? We'll 'protect' you from anything 'bad' happening."
"No, go after those honey pot bandits, they've got it good, I litterally don't have enough food for myself." Herhail hottily said, turning around and walking back.
"You damn brat!..." The left guy said with anger at being completely disregarded, he took a step and hit Herhail in the back of the head with his fist.
Herhail suddenly felt a large amount of pain in the back of his head, he heard these words from them "When we come in five days, you better pay up if you don't want get in a grave."
The three men didn't take him seriously and talked to each other as they walked off "I'm happy we can just extort other serfs instead of the others..." "Yea, I don't ever want to see that fleshy blob again, I still have nightmares..." "You guys are luckey, I saw a rat get injected with snake venom, the stuff which could kill a lvl 0 dog, and be fine 2 hours later. It's not that it wasn't effected, the venom just wasn't able to over come it's own regeneration rate."
"Keep kidding!" An another said "There wasn't such a rat in the reports. There's a fast one, a hard and heavy one, one with blue veins all over it's body which can use magic, a heavy one, one that that could well and do a bunch of tactics, not one that could live on after a lvl 2 snake's venom."
"But it looked like a normal rat without any problems... Well it looked... Healthy?" The other two laughed their asses off at the insanity of his words, slowly fading into the sunset.
Herhail was fuming on the inside, he didn't expect that his arrogant act would backfire, he already felt sore on his neck, and he was a bit disoriented.
He knew where those people came from, they're pretty much the boss of the slums. He never interacted with them before since he was a child without a path, but now he had a good path, with strong enough skills to kill them all.
Five days would be enough to put them all in the grave, he believed.
Right now all of the rats needed 20 exp to get to lvl 1, after a few hours they all got to lvl 1. it said that it needed 40 exp, then Herhail dreaded the chance at it being an exponential curve. After some time breathed a sigh of relief as rat 1 had leveled up to lvl 2 and showed that it was just 60 exp to get to lvl 3.
But there was something alerting, 2 stat points were of the rat this time. At level 2, rat 1 had 6 strength (6 in reality, +2 because of the adjective) instead of 4. Next, rat 5 had the same discovery, Herhail was filled with joy, then having it drop down a notch when rat 1 leveled up again and gained only 1 stat point.
Then it went up a bit again when at lvl 4 it gained 2 free stats again, so every 2nd level a [Healthy rat] gains 2 stats instead of 1.
The monsterous rat of muscles had gained up to 10 (8+2) strength overall in these 3 days, against the previous 14, it was pretty good actually. if we add on the new
Herhail believed that this one attack would be enough if it was mixed with bitting an artery, he remembered the big boss of the gang, and he remembered where arteries were since that's where most people get shanked.
"Go rat 1 and 5, go kill that gang boss!" Herhail said with confidence.
half-an-hour later he got the two rat cards back in his deck, they had failed. If a mere tier 1 creature could kill the gang boss, then he would've died long ago.
"This is war!" Herhail said loudly, then looked at the cards in his hand "War... War never changes."
Then he put rat 1 back into action "War has changed! Also, kill everything you can, scorched earth style! Make sure to not kill that old man though."
Herhail was ready for serious measures, if no one lives to work for the gang man, then no free food will come to the gang man. If no beasts exist, then no meat exists. Herhail already had a lot of meat he smoked with fire, though quality was of concern, it wasn't that bad, for a serf.
He had already noticed that there were less birds and other critters around, there wasn't that many creatures around for rats to kill constantly.
There just weren't enough, for exp. The exp gain had slowed already... What other than small critters could be killed? Hmm... What was what he was trying to kill? Hmmm....